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# glowworm

«glowworm» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of beetle whose females, which look like soft…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a glowworm, glowworms); also glow-worm

### meaning for a pupil

1) A glowworm is a kind of beetle whose females, which look like soft grubs without wings, give off a green light from their tails at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#m1)

2) In New Zealand and Australia, glowworms are the tiny larvae of a gnat that hang in caves and glow blue, like stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about animals that make light (bioluminescence) and in night-time stories. Waitomo caves in New Zealand are famous for them. Phrases: «glowworm caves», «glowing like a glowworm».

### examples

- The glowworm shone in the grass at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x1)
- In New Zealand we saw glowworms in a cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x2)
- Glowworms make light inside their bodies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x3)
- The cave roof looked like a sky full of stars because of the glowworms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x4)
- Female glowworms glow to attract males. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x5)
- We walked quietly so we didn't disturb the glowworms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x6)
- A glowworm is not really a worm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x7)
- Fireflies and glowworms are related beetles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x8)
- “Dear little Glowworm, will you set me free?” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/#x9)

### note

One word or with a hyphen: glowworm, glow-worm. Trap: a glowworm is not a worm but an insect larva or beetle. Their light makes almost no heat.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glowworm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glowworm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.